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Issue 4 March 1985

Distributed by SM Distribution

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I REGULARS

News

La test gossip tn the 464 *weld

Letters

Your views on everything Amstrad

Software Reviews

Road before pa pay bakme you play.

In the Making

The author of Masteride talic about his program

Directory

A comprehensive list of allthesaftwarsbr your computer.

Top Ten

The most popular of the Amenft software

LANGUAGES

What is Forth?

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Learning Forth

The tipsr part of a series to teach you Forth

CP/M Assembler.

How to master machine code from CP/M

Pascale Blaze of Glory

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Managing Editor

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Editor

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Production Editor

Ivor Spital

Designer

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Layout

Des Rackliff

Computer composition

Mike Dawsset & MiAa Konstantinovi6

Photography

Chris Anstey

Consultant

Roland Perry

Advertisement Manager

Hilary Henshaw

Schools Irmo Pascal discover HS merits here

LIMO

Logo can do more than just draw patterns Boris Allen explains

I FEATURES

Chess Master

atch your move you could get hooked

Intro to Music

Mak e the most of Arnokis sound

Zen Review

Kama s assembler under the microscope

High Speed Loco

Locomotive BASIC makes the rivalc looks .slow.

Discs

licrw to get the most from a disc drive

Machine coda ﬁll

Ff ﬂ f rreguiars hs pos with this neat routine.

Events and screen dumps

Clif f Lawson shows you how to multitask.

Manipulating the screen display

Neat pmg

Thinking Logically

To AND OR NOT to AND is that OR questiDn

PROGRAMS

Trench Attack

Dy namic Death Star Destruction.

Electric Fencing

Two player fun from Alex Martin.

Fleishman

Thric e those cosmic rem

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COMPETITIONS

ArnsoftS E2,000 Competition

Who won whet and how to enter

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NEWS

A Ringside Seat

the CPC464 would get a blasting, the

CPC464 came out joint top at 5%

, with

Acorn's BBC Model B and Electron,

Acorn's outrageous Christmas

advertisement failed to acknowledge

this fact: indeed, it was downright

misleading suggesting that their two

machines 'stood head and shoulders

above the rest' and conveniently

forgetting to remind readers:

1. That Acorn (and Sinclair for that

matter) have been practising on the

Britsh public for years anyway.

2. That the CPC464 system includes a

tape deck and monitor - no other

machine in the survey was so

extensively 'exposed'.

3. That the CPC464 is obviously nicer

than any other computer, so it was

likely to be used far more anyway

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Xmas computer ads spark a row

TYCOONS

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Mr HIILAJO SIIRE

BRITAIN'S two top home computer

tycoons, whose products will make up

more than a million Christmas presents

tomorrow, have been involved in an

astonishing bar-room brawl.

One of the s nlili• m atr

W H Smith

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Winner

would have rounded off the whole

affair very nicely. Rumours that the

next Sinclair User show is to be held at

the Empire Pool Wembley and

promoted by Frank Warren are

entirely unfounded.

What it's all about:

The famous sparring match in the

Cambridge pub came about as a result

of an advert published just before

Christmas by Acorn, quoting several

reference to a survey carried out by

Business Decisions on behalf of a

publishing operation in which Chris

Curry (MD of Acorn) has 'a substantial

shareholding'.

As you may have guessed, the survey

was nice to Acorn and nasty to Sir

Clive. Over 25%

, of

There can be few readers who have

not yet heard the story of Christmas

Cheer dished out in the 'Barron of Beef

hostelry in Cambridge.

Sir Clive Sinclair took exception to

one of Acorns latest advertisments

which quoted newspaper reports of the

Sinclair Spectrums unreliability.

When Sir Clive met Chris Curry,

ex-Sinclair employee, and now one of

the bosses of Acorn Computers, the two

came to blows.

Never slow to turn a penny, Amsoft

spotted the opportunity to produce a

video game record of this titanic battle

to be entitled "Business is War".

Had the prospective author, the

talented Marcus Altman of Alligata

Blagger and many other stars of the

small screen), not had an unfortunate

Loss of source code, we might have been

previewing this epic herein.

The prospect of standing outside the

launch of the Sinclair electric tricycle

offering copies of the tape to passing

journalists and generally making the

most of the Sinclair press conference

As supplies have become more freely

available, the retail giant W H Smith is

at last able to stock the Amstrad

computer system. The top 50 computer

specialist stores will each have a

complete system (including disc drive)

on demonstration, and sales training

currently being given to the staff

should ensure good product knowledge.

'We're delighted to welcome W.H.

Smith to the fold', commented sales

supremo Dickie Mould,'We have now

got as complete a distribution network

as any computer manufacturer; and

now we have to concentrate on

improving software distribution to

complement the hardware.'

Reports of poor software availability

continue to hamper the CPC464,

emphasising the important role being

played by AMSOFT in ensuring that

any owner has access to a full range of

games, utilities and now C1

returned to the stores as faulty in the

warranty period, and only 5% BBC

Model B computers - according to the

survey, copies of which were not made

available to those manufacturers cited.

And as for Amstrad? Well, much to

the chagrin of some manufacturers

who felt sure that a computer as new as

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programs.

Amstrad User March 85

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